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 Message 1005 
 Dave Drum to Carlos Navarro 
 R.I.P. 
 19 Sep 21 10:12:14 
 
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-=> Carlos Navarro wrote to Dave Drum <=-

 DD> I get the feeling I may be one of the few who never owned a Sinclair
 DD> product .... not even a calculator.

 CN> I guess it depends on where you lived and your circumstances...

 CN> Back then I would have liked to have a Vic-20 with its colours, sound
 CN> and great keyboard, but Commodore computers were expensive over here
 CN> (I was a teenager with a limited budget).

When the Vic-20 appeared I was banging away at a TRS-80 Model 1. The 
Sinclair and the Commode Door were priced similarly here. The expensive
toy was Apple which was overpriced by a factor of 10. That's still true
today.  Bv(=

... MS-DOS=Christianity; Mac=Bhuddism; Amiga=Pagan sex magick

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